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Join Websleuths Radio for the final discussion of THE KILLING SEASON
with Josh Zemam, Rachel Mills and special guests including Bob Kolker author of Lost Girls

Case History
* Remains found in a plastic bag during a dig at a new home site in Redondo Beach. Per anthropologist, bones to be greater than 5 years and potentially decades old. Age is estimated at 20-50 years

The height is within an inch, her age is within range, and her car was found in Redondo Beach in the parking lot of the old Red Onion restaurant (now the Cheesecake Factory) near the corner of N. Harbor Drive and Portofino Way. I wonder where in Redondo Beach the remains were found.

The only other possible with a connection to Redondo Beach is Tawnya Faye Parker, although the DLC is probably too recent.

May I please ask have you found out anything more on this?The area found ect...I'm interested too in the area these remains were found.Do you know if they going to get DNA on these remains found?

This case just showed up on my radar this morning, so I have not found anything out other than the little info available in NamUs. I would bet the Daily Breeze newspaper would probably have a story on it. The DB is a local newspaper with a distribution covering the beach cities between the LA Airport and San Pedro.

This case just showed up on my radar this morning, so I have not found anything out other than the little info available in NamUs. I would bet the Daily Breeze newspaper would probably have a story on it. The DB is a local newspaper with a distribution covering the beach cities between the LA Airport and San Pedro.

She is from Carson and reportedly met her killer/s in Hermosa Beach which is not far from where the body was found. Her murderers said they dumped her somewhere rural and don't even remember which county but they could have lied. Maybe you forget if you're a serial killer and dump victims every day but otherwise I think that experiences like hiding a dead body would tend to stand out. Granted, if they had another victim they could have several.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gordon_Purvis
says Beckett Sr said he was paid to kill Susan Hamwi.

I wonder how much about the style of garbage bag could tell investigators about the age of the remains. The remains were thought to be as old as 50 years when they were found, meaning they could have been put there in 1951, but plastic trash bags weren't very common then:

A lot of new garbage bags are printed in a very "digital" type of text with warnings about suffocation risks (white text on black bags or dark text on white kitchen bags.) I'm not sure if bags were printed with these warnings decades ago or if a printed warning wouldn't wear off the bag if it was buried for years, but I imagine it would have been stamped on the bags instead of being printed on, so maybe that could help date the bag. I hope that made sense.

<-- Watched one too many Hanna-Barbera "teenage detective" cartoons as a kid.

I think Carol Lubahn is a very very good possibilty.I just also look for matches to my sister too.Thank you for the map.

Given that Cristopher Wilder's nationwide rampage took him through Redondo Beach/Torrance, it was quite reasonable to think that that this case might have a connection to your sister's case (or to Elizabeth Kenyon, Mary Opitz, or Rosario Gonzalez). (although IIRC, somewhere I saw a comment from you that you doubt that your sister's case is connected to Wilder).

But regardless, I doubt that Wilder was familiar enough with the area to choose that location for a dumping ground.

Given that Cristopher Wilder's nationwide rampage took him through Redondo Beach/Torrance, it was quite reasonable to think that that this case might have a connection to your sister's case (or to Elizabeth Kenyon, Mary Opitz, or Rosario Gonzalez). (although IIRC, somewhere I saw a comment from you that you doubt that your sister's case is connected to Wilder).

But regardless, I doubt that Wilder was familiar enough with the area to choose that location for a dumping ground.

Thank you for helping me.You are very nice.I do not think Christopher Wilder had anything to do with her disappearance.It's just that she was possibily heading for an acting lead or something in California.I am curious though.How close is Redondo Beach from any of the places they filmed scarface in California?

Most of the places mentioned (Little Tokyo and Downtown LA) are about 25 miles from Redondo Beach. The LA Airport is fairly close, but I doubt that your sister would have any roles in the airport scenes.